This game is really hard to play, and I really want to enjoy it because all of my buddies are on it, and the stories they're telling me make the game sound like a fucking amazing experience.Yet I just die instantly to most stuff, and my weapons do little damage.I like the weird stratagem system, but I feel like I can't realistically call down stuff fast enough before things I get munched into oblivion by the bugs.Do you have any tips for a new player, /v/? What should I be doing and what should I be unlocking asap?
>>735159904It's just friendslop for normalfags.
>>735159986Thanks for the help, anon.Great advice, weird how I could not think about that.
this is actually one of the only games that you unironically should ask advice about on the /vg/ general, /v/ will just cry about lefty tweets about nationalism bad or reveal being a huge shitter (while refusing to join a lobby)although the cover image instead of an actual loadout picture or any kind of ingame picture makes me assume this is just a shitpost thread in itself
>>735159904Don't try to hold your ground too much. Bugs will keep coming, it's better to move towards the next objective instead of fighting endless wavesGet Democratic Detonation as one of your first warbondsAnd come to /hdg/, we're one of the good ones.
>its hard>can solo any super helldive with vanilla scorcher/GL/Supply pack + 2 barrages of your choiceMy tip for you is inject yourself super credits, unlock all the paywall gear and do whatever LARP you want because the devs are retarded and have utterly fucked the game into oblivion by trying to appease redit
>>735159904>and the stories they're telling me make the game sound like a fucking amazing experience.It's all LARP, and poorly done.The game itself is derivative as shit, it recycles the same missions over and over and over and over and is shallow as fuck, it has all the remnants of a milsim (with armor mechanics and bullet drop and ballistics and shit) but it's all ignored and meaningless because very few weapons are viable in real difficulties.The LARP part comes from the "campaign" which lacks any sort of sauce, is railroaded to shit, the events in the game don't correspond to the "story" at all, and Arrowhead are GARBAGE at DMing a campaign.Don't bother.
>>735159904You have to accept you're going to die, that's part of the game. The big thing is to learn about the armor system and durable damage. It's completely hidden in the base game because swedes are gay. Overall it's a fun game, although I did get bored of it after 250 hours.As for good noob loadouts:The basic armor with Extra Padding is actually very very good. I highly recommend it as it increases your survivability by a lot.Primary: Liberator (not the carbine) or DiligenceSecondary: all the base ones suck unfortunatelyGrenade: Get thermites from Democratic Demolition ASAPGood strategems are the Medium Machine gun, EAT, Quasar Cannon, Recoilless Rifle, Shield backpack, Laser Guard Dog, Orbital Gatling, Eagle 500/Airstrike/strafing, Orbital Gas strike, Basic Machine Gun sentry, Rocket Sentry. Upgrade your Eagle station first so that you carry an extra strike, this gives you 2x 500lb bombs which is really nice against every faction. Then upgrade your command center to level 4 so you get extra support weapon ammo from supply drops. Those are the two big ones.You don't need any warbond except the Democratic Demolition because it has some very OP items in it. However, they do unlock a lot of good primary weapons and some fun strategems. Check out /hdg/ on >>>/vg/ for ways to cheat in credits if you don't want to grind or paypig for more of them. However don't stay because that thread is full of raging faggots.Sorry for the reddit spacing. If you have any questions or want tips I'm glad to help.
>>735159904Just keep practicing. It won't be until lvl30 until you can start getting the basic stratagems down and begin unlocking newer ones. This game doesn't hold your hand, and you can't really expect it to. Death and failure is just the nature of the game. It's going to happen. You will fail missions. You will die a lot. Once you simply begin to go into missions and not care about dying will you really start to get better and better. You'll go from dying every minute, to maybe once every 10 mins as you get progressively better. Dust yourself off, keep the pressure on getting the objectives done, and don't allow failure to keep you from having fun. I've seen too many people let little setbacks gatekeep them from having some amazing and cool stories of your own. But if we're going to have some "tips", heres a few:Bots: Accuracy and precision is incredibly well rewarded. Learn how your particular weapon handles and account for it in your aim, and you'll seriously begin to think that playing bots is ez-modeBugs: Most people think it's just dakka-dakka-dakka all the way to extract, but be mindful of your map, your position in it, and the enemies around you and I guarantee that bugs will be a pushover before long.Squids: These are an amalgam of both bots and bugs, but lean towards bug gameplay more than most. Bring a Stalwart, and you should be alright as well as you aim properly.
>>735159904>HardAfter they buffed everything to oneshot every enemy? Really?
>>735160454>Liberator (not the carbine)I meant not the penetrator. The carbine is good. The penetrator trades a lot of damage for medium pen, which isn't worth it.
>>735160125>P-please join our dying general so we can groom you while playing this shit gameLMAO
>>735160702uhuh prove me wrong by making a lobby and posting it here, niggeryou wont
>>735159904>but I feel like I can't realistically call down stuff fast enough before things I get munched into oblivion by the bugsDon't stand right next to the bugs. Memorize the stratagems you're spamming, you should be able to call the quicker ones down before the menu fully loadsOther than that most weapons and even more stratagems are completely worthless and not worth usingDon't hold ground unless the objective needs it, you can outsprint and ignore most enemies in the gameMost importantly, go to the fucking wiki and study enemy armor. The game will never ever explain enemy weakpoints. Bugs suffer the least from this but this is still something I advise doing, takes 30 minutes per faction and will make you more effective no matter what weapon you're usingAnd as >>735160329 said, it's all a LARP. Don't let yourself be dragged into caring about the fake war, Arrowhead will just make up whatever they want to and playerbase is too retarded to accomplish most of the objectives given (fact Arrowhead knows and abuses often). As for your buddies "war stories" they sound like easily impressed normalfags, you can drop a 500kg bomb on 20 bugs and if that doesn't sound like "a fucking amazing experience" then there's not many higher highs in the game than that
>>735161163Why would i host a public lobby when i can solo everything with the grenade launcher?Most of the remaining player base is console retards shitting up the game with bad controller aim
>>735159904hijacking your thread because you're a faggotthere are so many mods for this game, but is modding actually allowed or what?
>>735160702>dying generalliterally 7th fastest moving thread on /vg/
>>735161419>7th most shilled slop on the gacha boardO algo, /vg/xisters we are so back!
kek of course it's a shartynigger
kek of course it's a tranny
>>735159904I only wish they would remove the paywall so I can play it again.
>>735159904don't bother, game sucks>dozens of weapons, it's still best to use the vanilla rifles that aren't from any warbond, because god forbid we have weapons to choose from>dozens of stratagems, players only ever run a few unless it's a hold out mission, where everyone then selects turrets and other shit instead because it's THE ONLY TIME IT'S VIABLE>vehicles are a joke and most maps you can't even drive in without blowing up from touching a rock too fast>developers have 0 idea what they are actually doing and can't even beat difficulty 6 consistently so they rely on community feedback which results in "games too easy lmao, xDD" when barely anyone plays anything above 6, classic mistake of listening to your "pro players" who will literally die over and over again and still say it's too easy
imagine playing swedeshit GEEEEEEEEG
>>735159904Been playing the game since it first came out, I'd genuinely recommend for you to refund it if you can stillDevs constantly make changes that just sabotage players for the sake of artificial difficulty, railroading you to a handful of loadoutsThe Community is so dogshit they got a guy fired from his job for just challenging the developers to play their own fucking game on tier 10 difficultyIt's obvious the developers have 0 clue what they're doing anymore and they don't care, they have enough retards in the community that'll horf it down and say it's still too easyThey'll keep making the game more and more tedious to play to the point where it'll be mandatory to bring a crossbow + recoilless rifle on every mission
>>735159904Against bugs you'll want to stay fairly mobile and prioritise targets like the little jumpy bastards that can 2-tap you. The jump pack and warp pack are very handy at putting distance between you and them. The eagle strafing run and machine gun turret are reliable options for a new player that can chew through a lot of bugs easily. For the big ones, EATs are good and they come back so fast it won't be too painful if you die and lose one.>>735161719>it's still best to use the vanilla riflesThey're decent but there are plenty of weapons that far exceed them against each faction
>>735160454dont listen to this retardlightpen primaries are generally regarded as inferior to medium pwn. the liberator penetrator is perfectly servicable.thermites are a shitter noob trap. you only get three of them and swedejank routinely makes them bounce off heavy enemies instead of sticking. they also take like 10 seconds to actually kill their target.shield bag is a noob trap that rewards shitty situational awareness. Quasar is for people too lazy to call down EATs and the chargeup will get you killed. Laserdog is weak as shit compared to gundog that actually kills things and doesn’t slice your head open nearly as often.
SUPPORT INCOMING:>Extract>.dll into helldivers bin folder>launch game>launch GGbypass>Enter mission>Press insert key (shift and 0 on numpad)>unlimited SC under >mission >farming>>735161685>>735161349i guess
I left this game after they fucked the Eruptor. Everything i see about this game has this Devs vs Players frame, the retarded devs don't deserve such a loyal cattle fanbase.
https://litter.catbox.moe/3ytmyys4sovdoex7.rarunlimited SC await
>>735163057>lightpen primaries are generally regarded as inferior to medium pwn. the liberator penetrator is perfectly servicable.You are a fucking shitter
>>735163134enjoy wasting a whole mag aiming for the crack between hiveguard legs while everyone else with a medpen primary or secondary just blasts it in its fat face. god forbid you get a bile spewer seed.though if you’re recommending the diaper pack you’re probably better at just running away from everything which explains your lightpen recommendation
>>735160293>Inject super creditsHow do you do this? I switched to PC and lost all my stuff and I'm not about to buy all that shit again and upgrade my ship all over.
>>735163320<>>735163067>>735163121
>>735160293> devs are retarded and have utterly fucked the game into obliviont. literally rddittired of hearing faggot stream tranny videos being parroted by shitting homos on here >>735160329>very few weapons are viable in higher difficulties You fucking SHITTERS stop posting lmfao wow
>>735161562literal trans psycho spewing nonsense
>>735163367Sick.
>>735163095>since they fucked the eruptor??????? you mean the best gun in the game?9/10 posts ITT are just YouTube clickbait headlines ffs, lies and rage bait
>>735163121>litterhow long is this gonna be up I'm waging for the next 3 hours
>>735159904unironically get good. if you keep playing you will.
>>735163430>Nooo stop insulting my heckin wholesome swedes, everything in the game is super perfect and always was and if they fix it that never happenedGlazetroondivers are so funny
>>735159904>This game is really hard to playRace? Country? Generation? I am genuinly intrigued.
>>735159904>bugslight armor is usually the best here because your sprint is faster than everything except chargers, alpha warriors, and hunters that are already on you. Stick around your teammates if you don’t have a way to deal with heavy enemies, or vice versa. Don’t totally discount weapons that can effectively kill trash enemies as some bug seeds throw a lot of them at you. The MMG or Stalwart are both really good for mowing down light enemies and some medium enemies fast enough to keep them back. EATs are versatile and short call in but it can be difficult to call them in fast enough when you need them immediately, so don’t be afraid to drop a pod of them “just in case”.Explosive primaries are good at dealing with almost anything but make sure you have a reliable pistol or support weapon to deal with ankle biters right on you. Most regular rifles are perfectly servicable though having a mix of medium and light pen is usually nice. Shotguns aren’t as lethal as I would like but they do stagger and punch bugs back which gives you some breathing room if that’s giving you trouble.
stopped playing after 25 hoursthats it shelf life, no morei did one lvl 10 and it wasnt that hard and made me not care
>slugger>grenade pistol>stalwart>thermite grenade>engineering kit>deal with the crowds and medium targets and let the other 3 who all pack AT deal with the heaviesyep, it's gaming time
>>735159904Game is too easy
>>735160125Last time I played the game and went on /hdg/ the faggot ass board was 10% actual real posts, 90% a mix of retarded e-celeb worship, retarded e-celeb hateposting, and bugdiver vs botdiver false flagging. Which, to be fair, seems to be 90% of this game's discussion as a whole, but I still can't recommend going to such a faggot ass place.
>>735164030>tranimeyou are in no position to speak, sister
>>735165151Do people not play vs the squids or what?
>>735165212Last I checked, no, pretty much nobody touches that faction because it's an empty shell. I think it gets about 2-3% of the playerbase on it outside of an MO. But I haven't played since December, so.
>>735165151so like every /vg/ thread
>>735165153>"tranime" shartynigger finds helldivers too hardfigures
>>735160125>>735165151I just go to /hdg/ with a reverse regex filter that only shows "steam://joinlobby" posts and the OP with a notification set-up, 10/10 thread would visit again
On the note of not having played in a while, have people finally come around to my beautiful baby the Pacifier yet?
>>735164302>constitution>magnum>gas grenade>gas strike>gas mines>gas drone>harpoon gun>SS jacket>SS gas mask>Eagle capeYeah, its racial purity time
>>735163067>>735163121Does this just add them to my account, or spawn them in? Can I use it to give my friends creds too? I already have pretty much everything I care about but they're a bunch of slackers.
>>735163907If you have legitimate complaints fine. I have some. Not any of the gay shit you said that sloptibers keep spouting (lies) for clicks from actual troons like you.
>>735165804I always liked it. Even without the stun it’s a medpen ar, usable in that regard alone.
>>735166719it spawns in 90sc every 50 seconds for the entire lobby as if you were picking them upI think just adding SC to your acc would get flagged, not even narrowhead is that dumbor maybe they who cares, giving randos SC is fun anywways
You should just stick with your team for now until you unlock all the better weapons and stratagems, and learn weakpoints and stuff so you know how to kill enemies faster. Look up a guide or just learn by doing. It's a chill game outside of the planets that are marked with special enemy types despite how easy it is to die, and you get a ton of respawns per mission.
>>735159904Don't fall for the light armor meme especially if you do not have good situational awareness, it makes you extremly squishy. I wear heavy armor 99% of the time now and it helps you stay alive. You just need to keep you distance from the enemies and reposition constantly. Sometimes you need to fully retreat and disengage if you lose control of a situation because it will continue to spiral out of control.
>>735159904all their parody stuff aside I do kinda wish we were actually the good guys like in EDF
>>735163121Probably gets asked a million times but people have really never been banned for doing this?
>>735167686we are>>>/reddit/
>>735167686>man eating bugs>robots that put people in blenders to make fuel>genocidal aliensSuper Earth are the good guys
>>735167634Yeah, a lot of anons will throw flak at tips like this, but there are times where running away is the most tactically correct thing to do, especially if you've gotten into a rough mission and your reinforcements are dwindling. Too many fuckin idiots just try and stand their ground and facetank whats in front of them when they should be disengaging and regrouping and pulling downed allies out of the proverbial frying pan/fire
>>735168067I did a bunch of farming during siege breakers with nothing happening, I don't know about this new method but I wouldn't worry.
>>735168067No, and Arrowhead have shown zero fucks about those who have been/are doing this. IIRC, their entire stance is "we didn't even want pain warbonds, but Sonys stipulations forced our hand. We don't care if you get SC legit or not." or something to that effect
>>735159904Try playing on lower difficulty until you get used to the mechanics, also the starting weapons really suck so don’t go into harder difficulty before unlocking good weapons.
>>735167686we are AT LEAST the least bad guys, if we're not the good guys
>>735167248>I think just adding SC to your acc would get flagged, not even narrowhead is that dumLast I heard arrowhead didn't give half a fuck about you cheating anything in aside from samples for whatever reason
>>735166803>Devs are retarded is not a legitimate complaint, be more wholesome or we will dox youkek, glazedivers are so retarded
>>735167634heavy siege ready is my favorite
>>735169673Don't they just cap those?
>>735169673they only care about samples because when joel puts an impossible sample collection quota MO the super chinks cheat missions to collect like 1000 samples at a time and instantly complete it. it messes with their careful narrative and makes them work which swedes are well known to avoid at all costs.
>>735163067Thanks for the url, wait uuuuh
anons who can clear d10 solo bots raise the flag, what is your load out/stratagems? Can you reliable complete those missions against any combo of units? Do you complete all objectives or do you just go for the main objective and extract?
>>735169862Is this the only game where the chinese hackers are actually saving the game instead of killing it
>>735169791I've been a stim addict in the heavy Butcher set for a while now, with the supply pack and experimental infusion on top of that you are basically unkillable by anything that isn't an insta-gib.I've probably developed a lot of bad habits because of it but I don't really care.
>>735165153Gen A brownoid, got it.
>>735165569>>735171817>both called out so easilyDilate.
>>735159904It's a comedy game. Imagine the three stooges but there's four of them and they are in a starship troopers battle.
>>735163057>recomending the insta tk dogNigger of the lowest kind.
>>735172051For me it the rag dolling into the air for a good 5 seconds only to take minimal damage. A few times when I would play on a dense tropical biome for bots, I would call in an exo suit ready to fuck shit up only for it to get one shotted by a turret hiding behind the trees.
>>735163121First try, it crashed my game, ill try it again
>>735173120Ok now it works but it only gives me 10, all the other sc dont give anything
>>735169609Someone doesn't know the lore. Super Earth is most CERTAINLY the bad guys towards every faction:Bugs: Fairly intelligent and self-aware, but we found their guts were useful for oil so we enslaved them and penned them in to harvest them in the most brutal waysBots/Cyborgs: Wanted freedom, but were beaten down and enslaved to work in mines that only they could inhabit for any length of time simply because "we made you, we own you". Squids: Actively tried diplomacy in the 1st Galactic War but showed disdain for how Super Earths society was run and wanted a more free populace as well as trade for resources, and offered advanced technology in an effort to sway SE. Immediately declared as enemies of the state, beaten down and driven from our galaxy.Super Earth has reaped every seed they've sown and has only held on for as long as they have because we (the players) just don't give a shit about the lore and want to win (or so Joel would like us to believe, and the ONLY agency we've ever had in the entire game was at the Creek and when we actively told Joel "Go fuck yourself" when he wanted to give us AT mines when the vast majority of us despise mines like no other stratagem, where he then forced it onto us players as a middle-finger to us back)
>>735159904The basic support weapon machine guns are underrated, anything with medium / heavy penetration is really useful for anything that isn't straight up miniboss materialFor enemies that you can't just mow down with shredding, you just want the 500kg eagle bomb which is generally an almost must have for any run that isn't "stealth"Warbond priority should be the one with the Warp pack, as it will almost double your "farming efficiency" if you want to call it that (you can use it to teleport straight in to bunkers without relying on a teammate)Everything else is optional, but generally people favor explosive shit because they are almost never bad,meanwhileIf you desperately want your primary/secondary weapon to be more useful, there's an explosive "sniper" called Eruptor in one of the explosive themed warbonds, that is very strong against anything that isn't extremely armored - it's also good against every factionas for secondaries, you want the laser pistol called "talon"or the P-4 semator revolverFor grenades, try get dynamite or thermite, the latter one can oneshot most tanky enemies and glues in to them when you throw it at themIf you're strictly running with base game gear, then you should use the machine gun support weapon, 500kg eagle strike, orbital laser and any turret or mech you like
>>735172051soloing with the tank makes it feel like a tom and jerry bit of constantly trying to line up my tank correctly to take down a factory strider just to be flanked by another squad who ambushes me with a bot drop that calls for another factory strider.
>>735173406>Helldivers 1 loreNone of this applies to HD2 Super-Earth beyond "sins of the father"
>>735159904You can rebind the Stratagem buttons to the arrow keys so that you can type Strats while still running around.
>>735174493Any government that cared about it's people would've just killed off the bugs by now, especially after the squids showed that other energy sources are perfectly viable. Super Earth would rather kill off entire worlds worth of people and manually propagate terminids all over the fucking place just because its cheap, easy, and they don't give a shit about how many die.Super Israel literally hates lower class citizens like you, treats valiant helldivers and seaf soldiers like goycattle to die for their interests, and you gobble it up and defend it like a loyal little moron.
